The Democratic Republic of Mandenosia is a very large, efficient nation, notable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, public floggings, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, hard-working population of 113 million Mandenosians are free to succeed or fail in life on their own merits; the successful tend to enjoy an opulent (but moralistic) lifestyle, while the failures can be seen crowding out most jails.

The relatively small, moralistic, pro-business government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Defense, and Law & Order. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 8.3%.

The frighteningly efficient Mandenosian economy, worth 11.0 trillion Drachmas a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Uranium Mining, and Retail. Average income is 97,274 Drachmas, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 429,078 per year while the poor average 13,819, a ratio of 31.0 to 1.

It is mandatory to learn evolution in schools, scientists recently cloned the long-extinct feather-bellied Brain Cell, you can't spell society without CIS, and the government's foreign policy statements are less threatening than a World Assembly cease-and-desist letter. Crime, especially youth-related, is almost non-existent, thanks to a capable police force. Mandenosia's national animal is the Brain Cell, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Mandenosia is ranked 191,662^nd in the world and 3,668^th in The North Pacific for Most Armed, with 0.28 weapons per person.